List of Figures

• The Chapters of the Thesis.
• An Example of a Supply Chain.
• Hierarchy of Objectives.
• Hierarchy of Supply Chain Decisions.
• A Control Cycle.
• Illustrating how flexibility, inventories, and customer service are interrelated.
• A very schematic illustration of what Bathnagar et al. calls General Coordination (top) and Multi-Plant Coordination (bottom).
• Transition diagram showing the Arrange-Ship-Conversation. This conversation class is used by dispatching agents in the PMC Model.
• The entities and material flow in the Simple Model
• Timeline of materials flow.
• Forecasted Demand.
• The agents in the Simple Model.
• The sequence of processes within a week.
• Graph showing Acual Orders and Order Forecast
• Graph showing the values of RPI and FGI inventories as A/F increases.
• Graph showing how customer satisfaction decreases as A/F increases.
• Graph showing the effect on materials orders and inventory as K increases.
• Comitted inventory as L increases. L is given in weeks.
• Visiualizing varying delivery times.
• The backlog and RPI values with varying delivery times.
• Materials ordering when lt varies.
• An overview of the PMC supply chain.
• The plant architectures of the PMC Model.
• Weekly Processes in the Supply Chain.
• Presenting the agents in the PMC Model.
• Production planning - General and Multi-Plant Coordination.
• Information flow for materials ordering.
• Graphs showing customer service as function of A/F.
• Graphs showing backlog value as function of A/F.
• Graphs showing percent on-time deliveries and average time to delivery for Computer-GER and Computer-US when A/F is set to 1.25.
• Graphs showing the DC inventories and demand for Computer-US and Computer-GER when the ratio A/F is varied.
• Graphs showing RPI levels compared to safety stock level as A/F vary.
• Graphs showing RPI levels when MB-A1's capacity is reduced by 90% between weeks 35 and 47.
• Graphs showing RPI levels when CBOX-A's capacity is reduced by 80% between week 35 and 47.
• Graphs showing RPI levels when SYS-Testing's capacity is reduced by 80% between week 35 and 47.
• Graphs showing the impact of eliminating delivery plans from the model when breakdown is simulated in the CBOX-A workstation.
• Graphs showing the impact of eliminating delivery plans from the model when breakdown is simulated in the MB-A1 workstation.
• Graphs showing % on-time deliveries and the % of delivered products that were correctly quoted.
• The conversation manager window.
• The COOL Agent Browser
• Viewing the Conversation Status.
• Inspecting, editing and applying rules.
• Editing, executing and learning rule actions.
• Inspecting and editing conversation history and messages.
• COOL: Conversation Class and Rule Browser
• Conversation Class Editor
• Conversation Rule Editor
• The customer-conversation
• The Logistics protocol
• Definition of rule CRN-7 of the logistics-execution-net class.
• Conversation classes for forming the small team
• Definition of rule FST-1 of the form-small-team-class.
• Trace recorded when message in fst-1 is sent.
• Simplified illustration of information exchange in the demonstrator.